Luz García

Luz Margarita Cecilia García Guzmán (April 15, 1977 in Moca) is a Dominican TV hostess, theatre and film actress, and beauty pageant title holder. García is known in Puerto Rico as Lucy Amado.

Modeling

García started her career as a model in Puerto Rico, then she moved back to the Dominican Republic where she participated in the beauty pageant Miss Universe Dominicana 1999, she won and represented her country in the Miss Universe 1999 contest; after that, she represented again her country now at Miss World.

Radio and television

Luz García and Jenny Blanco at Noche de Luz (April 2012)

• “Vale Más” ; stage name: 'Lucy Amado' (1996-2000)
• “Hola Gente” (2000-2001)
• “El Show del Mediodía” (2001-2002)
• “Formalmente Informal” (2002)
• “Botando el Golpe” (radio, 2003)
• “El Escándalo del 13” (2003-2004)
• “Noche de Luz” (2004–present)
• “Todo Bien” (2006-2008)

Acting

• "Prefiero un marido infiel" (2002)
• "El buhó y la gatica" (2003)
• "¿Qué sexo prefiere Javier?" (2005)
• "Mujeres en cuatro posiciones" (2006)
• "Orgasmos" (2007)
• "El rey de Najayo" (2011)
• "El que mucho abarca" (2014)

On April 2008 she married Maj. Gen. José Miguel Soto Jiménez, former Minister of the Dominican armed forces, in a villa in La Romana. They had a son, Miguel Ángel (born 2010), and divorced on 2011.

In 2012, García was linked romantically with Dominican poet and journalist Pablo McKinney.